[Closed] Pump Rage

10/10

Now, what the hell was that all about?

It sounds like 2 complete idiots at a petrol station.

Bravo - top rant.

From my perspective whenever I am filling up the motor I see at as my right to take as much time as I see fit at the pump / in the shop paying / resetting the trip computer etc before I move my car.

I have paid a ****load of money for the privilege of using the pump therefore I'd like to get my money's worth.

If that makes sense.

mentalist...

Only in Swindon...

It sounds like 2 complete idiots at a petrol station.

agreed 😀

Good use of capitals, censored swearing, genuine anger coming from the text bravo 🙂

10/10

Did you wee in his tank?

Have to say, Mr VW sounds like a massive spanner, but I have been known to pull out the way of pumps when a station is busy...

Cheered me up on a Monday morning, nice one.

Actually someone else can technically use a pump when the previous person is waiting to pay against said pump...the previous transaction doesn't have to be cleared first. Having said that, this guy sounds like a right jockey. What makes me laugh is when people insist on waiting in a queue of cars just to get the pump on the same side as their petrol cap, whilst ignoring unused pumps on the other side. Top tip...the hoses stretch far enough.

Also I thought this was going to be about anger farts that lead to followthrough, so you lose a mark for that... But you pick up one because my second guess was mini pumps. So 8/10, you didn't mash the keyboard or use enough exclamation marks for my liking.

i give it a week till you are back on here bleating about how your crappy old morris has been keyed.

I'd have pumped petrol over his car then set it alight.
Probably.

next time join your assistant when they pay and avoid all that unnessecary (sp?) confrontation.

Or if I was him, I'd have pumped petrol over your car and set it alight.

Mind you, that would probably just inflame the situation.

On second thoughts, is this all a part of MrNutts journey towards spirituality and inner peace?

What a spanner (Mr VW)

I used to have a Morris too, tough as nails, one of the best cars I have ever owned.

Nice thing about the morris is that you can have a Minor prang in it without doing any dammage(no pun intended). 😉

I would have been so tempted to select reverse, cave his radiator in, then drive off 😉

Saying that, I did have a New Range Rover slam my rear end in a Morris once, trailerd his car, the Morris just left some rust dust on the road and drove off 😉

wow what fine rutting stags you are both of you AWESOMEI cannot work out which one o fyo is the biggest fool tbh but I will say hoim as I am less likely to meet him in the real world and you sound quite scarry 😉

It never fails to amaze me that drivers will only use the pump thats on the same side as their filler cap. I just love driving past two or three queueing cars then filling up from the "wrong" side. I've also never yet been into a petrol station where the hose won't reach either.

It never fails to amaze me that drivers will only use the pump thats on the same side as their filler cap. I just love driving past two or three queueing cars then filling up from the "wrong" side. I've also never yet been into a petrol station where the hose won't reach either.

Yeah its a hilarious
I once stopped at a petrol station in Aviemore and there must have been eight cars queing up for the right hand pump.
I drove up to the left hand one and did a little pantomime where I looked like I made an error followed by fake amazement that the hose stretched.
Everyone wating in the other queue probably thought I was an arsehole! Made me laugh though!

I like to pull up to pump on the 'wrong' side, then reach over with the 'wrong' pump which is on the right side

Everyone wating in the other queue probably thought I was an arsehole

Yeah probably, after all, I do and I wasn't even in the queue

You should keep a petrol can full of water in your boot for occasions such as this.

next time it happens...start shouting and screaming...open your boot and take out the can and then pour it all over yourself....then stand on his bonnet holding a lighter while screaming at him "DO YOU FEEL LUCKY?"

[i]It never fails to amaze me that drivers will only use the pump thats on the same side as their filler cap. I just love driving past two or three queueing cars then filling up from the "wrong" side. I've also never yet been into a petrol station where the hose won't reach either.[/i]

Not if you drive a van it doesn't, no option on that to fill up from the wrong side. 🙁

Disclaimer...if you also have a petrol can full of [u]petrol[/u] in your boot...please ensure they are clearly marked.

Lol both tools. If I had someone paying I would vacate the pump to let the next person in. No need for bloke behind to be a coq either, both as bad as each other.

A little old lady brought our local petrol station to a standstill once. She managed to park her Micra bang in the middle of the forecourt, equidistant from all the pumps. NONE of the 4 hoses she tried would reach! The guy on the tills was shouting instructions over the tannoy and the tiny lady hauling on the pump hoses for all she was worth.

I checked for hidden cameras before offering to help....

Have you not learnt yet that the best way to wind little pricks like that up is to just completely ignore them.

If someone else is paying for you why not move forward?

Lad infront of me yesterday filled up, the decided to pop over to the cashpoint and then chose a mag before paying. All he had to do was pull into a space provided at the front of the store/station. You only get charged for leaving without paying if you actually leave the petrol station.

I didn't flip etc. Just marvelled at why someone doesn't understand what those spaces can be used for. (There was a queue of 2 behind me).

Don't folk realise its courteous to move forward?

BTW- no I wouldn't have an argument/fight in a petrol station over such trivial things.

...I drive a Morris...

Giggles

johnners - Member

Now, what the hell was that all about?

It sounds like 2 complete idiots at a petrol station.

Bet the CCTV is entertaining though!

Think I've found it [url=

The hoses don't always reach 🙂

most of the pumps round my way say in capital letters " DO NOT MOVE YOUR CAR FORWARD UNTIL AFTER PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE"

might be different in englandshire though

Following on from the Izzard clip......

class vid Rusty Spanner, HMHB rule 😀

most of the pumps round my way say in capital letters " DO NOT MOVE YOUR CAR FORWARD UNTIL AFTER PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE"

Theres one here in Manchester that says 'please pay before you fill up'.

😆

On our way back from Cumbria mrs loco and myself stop to fill up the car with petrol, she went into pay and was virtually chased out the shop after paying by the mentalist behind the counter accusing us of stealing fuel off him 😯 errr, we'd just paid for the fuel, we were both creasing up laughing as didn't have a clue what was going on.

As for the only filling up on one side, what's that about is'nt it totally obvious? 😕

I like the way you don't think 'why?' and go straight to 'FIGHT'.

You need to calm down a bit, princess.

I find that having a camera in your car is very helpful, if people steal your space, get a little angsty etc, whip out your camera and just take a photo. Make sure you take the time to get a really good one, fiddle with some settings, zoom in close. Then ignore them.

The conventional response to this tends to be that they go a little white and back down very quickly. Any impulse to do you violence quickly fades when they know you have an excellent mugshot for follow up purposes (be they revenge, police, internet humiliation or whatever else their now slightly off balance mind can muster)

To be honest I rarely use the pump on the wrong side of the car because the hoses rarely stretch far enough and you end up scratching the hell out of your bodywork unless you want to hold the hose off it for 5 minutes while filling and get covered in dribbles of fuel and grit.

I also don't move away from the pump as on one occasion the garage logged me as a drive-away fuel thief and were moaning about it when I went in to pay - tis all done by cameras automatically you see.

To be fair Tootall, you are verging on a man mountain so I doubt many people will give you too much rage.
The attendant that was shouting at us for supposedly knicking petrol calmed down a bit when he got to the door and saw me standing next to the car. 😀

silver VW repmobile

ahem. VAG group (irrational) dislike... +1

though you both seem hellishly quick to jump into a fight.

myself, i would have told him to chill the eff out and then ignored him.

might thrown a "you little runt" in there too.

I always fuel from eitherside without the need for the hose to touch my car. The knack is to park just after the pump and close. You don't have to stretch or strain either.

Quite a lot in Liverpool also say "Pay before filling" never do mind as I don't know how much it's going to take to fill it?

Also there is a garage down the road from work where the all the hoses have been shortened so you can't fill from either side!! I won't use that garage on principle now.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/scrolling-message-board-35483

one of these in the back window is what you need 😀

once had an old guy shouting at me for not pulling forward to the first pump, i didn't want to as it was all premium fuels.

i filled up at the back row, refusing to shout at him across the forecourt, he refused to get out the car and speak to me, as i drove off i saw him pull up to the first pump - big van pulls into the second one - then he realises what i'd been trying to tell him - saw him get back in the car - explain to his wife and drive all the way to the back of the queue!!

dozy old fool!!

Quite a lot in Liverpool also say "Pay before filling" never do mind as I don't know how much it's going to take to fill it?

They just authorise your card, let you fill, then take the quantity they require. Seems a bit odd at first.

You are both as deranged as a box of frogs, must have been the fuel fumes

The asumption of some tall people that as they are tall they must automaticaly the daddy and can beat up smaller people is tragicaly flawed and will get them into a whole world of pain.

The asumption of some tall people that as they are tall they must automaticaly the daddy and can beat up smaller people is tragicaly flawed and will get them into a whole world of pain.

Tall != hard, of course. But it does give you certain advantages, namely longer reach and higher impact speed for the same limb angle motion. Either way, smaller people /tent/ to be intimidated by a 6ft+ 17st athletic guy, regardless of real hardness.

Tall != hard

C Programmer?

erm, I'm 5.11 Mr Average, Mikeypies why do you automatically think I'm lofty?

Bloody napoleons, always have a complex that people taller than them always want to get one over on them 😀

That arsehat clearly thought that he was able to bully me into moving to rectify to his poor choice of pump and his subsequent reluctance to move, well he very nearly came a cropper..

I just want to be left alone to go about my business! Bully not lest you be bullied.

They just authorise your card, let you fill, then take the quantity they require. Seems a bit odd at first.

well it was your statement now he's shorter than me by about 5 inches

You need to chill and talk garbage to people who are as deranged as he was it totaly catchs them off guard.

Going to all guns blazing is hardly worth it and has unfortunately led to people ending up in prison for manslaughter.

I actually need this.

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The asumption of some tall people that as they are tall they must automaticaly the daddy and can beat up smaller people is tragicaly flawed and will get them into a whole world of pain.

This is actually true and has been the undoing of one or two angry men I've encountered. 🙂

Always go for the ankles. Take the ankles out, then they can't stand up.

Bloody hell, can't beleive you both got so irate, I'm [i]guessing[/i] you went mental due to his initial immense overreaction but you should still chill.

Only trouble I ever had on a forecourt was some idiot had parked his rangerover miles away from the pump, I had to squeeze my car into the other side and could only just get the petrol nozzle into petrol cap. Tool came back from paying, saw me struggling but just got into his silly sized car and drove off, if I hadn't whipped the nozzle out of the filler his wheel arch would have trashed the pump nozzle, my car or both.

Torminalis - Member
I find that having a camera in your car is very helpful, if people steal your space, get a little angsty etc, whip out your camera and just take a photo.

Of course, most mobiles have a camera in them and it's easy enough to take the phone out of your pocket and point it at the 'offender'.

I find that it's useful when people drive through red lights onto pedestrian crossings when the green man is on and I'm in the process of crossing. Makes them a little more apologetic!

Take the ankles out, then they can't stand up.

You been watching Karate Kid 3?

No, 'Enter the Ferret', starring Bruce Flea.

I find all this talk of bestiality to be lewd and misozoonistic

Heh! 😀

Nutt and Elfin discuss the shocking rise in the price of fuel:

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how did it go so wrong... 'petrol fight!'

calm down a bit, princess.

a little video of TSY, myself, Torminalis and MrNutt from last weekend... cant understand why the VW driver got angry?!

beautiful people think alike!

Phil, I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. Care to join me in finding out what it is?

beautiful people think alike!

http://www.beautifulpeople.com/index/en

Beauty may only be skin deep but ugliness goes to the bone.

http://www.beautifulpeople.com/index/en

uh oh! here we go again. Hope they are not too beautiful, the might cause a sexual response.

you saying i've got ugly bones?! 😯
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coffeeking - Member

They just authorise your card, let you fill, then take the quantity they require. Seems a bit odd at first.

+ some of the characters running the till's look very iffy IMO so I'm always a little wary of card skimming (it was happening at one of the garages I used to go to)

Is there a film called 'Ugly Bones'? Or is it 'Lovely Bones'?
I know there's a book called 'Funny Bones'!

'It was a dark, dark night,
in a dark, dark house...'

you saying i've got ugly bones?

Nope, I'm saying that us beauties may be shallow, but at least we're not evil!

Beauty may only be skin deep but ugliness goes to the bone.

Ain't no ugliness comes near my bone!

Ain't no nothing [s]ugliness[/s] comes near my bone!

FIFY 😀

The asumption of some tall people that as they are tall they must automaticaly the daddy and can beat up smaller people is tragicaly flawed and will get them into a whole world of pain.

Ironically, most tall people are incredibly laid back and easy going. They have to be as it is always them the small man targets when they want to kick off in that small man way they do. I prefer using brains rather than brawn to diffuse a situation - like asking 'why' rather than thinking 'FIGHT' in my reply above.

most tall people are incredibly laid back and easy going. They have to be as it is always them the small man targets when they want to kick off in that small man way they do. I prefer using brains rather than brawn to diffuse a situation - like asking 'why' rather than thinking 'FIGHT'

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